Under completely contrasting skies of last year's near wash-out, the British GT Championship's class of 2019 set about their final preparations on Friday and Saturday ahead of the two opening rounds of the season from the Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire tomorrow.

Eleven examples of the finest new Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3's and GT4's will race competitively for the first time in the UK amongst the expected grid of thirty five cars with the established AMR teams of TF Sport, Optimum Motorsport, Beechdean AMR and Academy Motorsport amongst them.

#99 Beechdean AMR Howard/Sorensen

#2 TF Sport Farmer/Thiim

#35 Optimum O'Brien/Butel

#96 Optimum Wilkinson/Ellis

Many of the drivers within the seven AMR GT4 entries will have relatively little GT racing experience going into this season and all bar three of them have embarked on this path as part of their racing driving developmental curve and in partnership with the Aston Martin Racing Driver Academy process. The same will apply for the youngest driver within the AMR fleet with Optimum's Ollie Wilkinson also included.

#75 Optimum Robinson/Mathiessen

#95 TF Sport Kibble/Price

#11 Beechdean Plowman/Flether

Whilst other business sadly kept us away from the excitement of yesterdays Free Practice and Qualifying for each of tomorrows two-one hour races, all looks set to be an exciting opening encounter around the 2.7mile Cheshire circuit and if you are not lucky enough to be there tomorrow, then fear not as both races will be streamed live via the British GT social media channels.

#62 Academy Toth-Jones/Moore

#47 TF Sport Davidson/Adam

Race 1 begins at 11:15hrs with the AMR cars placed as follows on the Am starting grid:-